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Death and Nonexistence (Hardcover)
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Death and Nonexistence (Hardcover)
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The dead are gone. They count for nothing. Yet, if we count the
dead, their number is staggering. And they account for most of what
is great about civilization. Compared to the greatness of the dead,
the accomplishments of the living are paltry. Which is it then: are
the dead still there to be counted or not? And if they are still
there, where exactly is "there"? We are confronted with the ancient
paradox of nonexistence bequeathed us by Parmenides. The mystery of
death is the mystery of nonexistence. A successful attempt to
provide a metaphysics of death, then, must resolve the paradox of
nonexistence. That is the aim of this study. At the same time, the
metaphysics of death, of ceasing to exist, must serve as an account
of birth, of coming to exist; the primary thesis of this book is
that this demands going beyond existence and nonexistence to
include what underlies both, which one can call, following
tradition, "being." The dead and the unborn are therefore objects
that lack existence but not being. Nonexistent objects - not
corpses, or skeletons, or memories, all of which are existent
objects - are what are "there" to be counted when we count the
dead.
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